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Reply to "Adventures in TMCC & Legacy... Trying to master the 455Khz track signal. I've built the test car, and it is finally working.."

Bruce, as Stan pointed out a little further up the page, the AM radio and the signal detection car are doing a similar function. The advantage of the car is it can follow the track and quantify the signal. The AM radio is able to go anywhere, and sniff for other noise sources. It only registers presence, not level.

That's interesting about you hearing the Legacy noise on your stereo tuner. Out of curiosity, are the Legacy and the tuner plugged into the same house circuit? Could the noise be feeding back through the wall and coming out your speakers? When I was a kid, I remember the vacuum cleaner messing up the TV signal when it was on. I'm looking for a connection, but mostly shooting in the dark.

John, my electric bill is just fine. There would have been no way I could have lit the layout with anything less than LED bulbs. They use 9 Watts per 60 Watt equivalent bulb. The whole room takes less than 20 Amps to light, and generates almost no heat. They run, on average, maybe a couple hours a day. Nothing compared to heating water in the hot tub, which is why I turned that thing off, probably for good.

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